Gaming then and now

yea already tweeted this

It's so true it hurts.

It's a cashflow issue. Publishers are looking to sell games as quickly as possible, so they release incomplete garbage and throw a tonne of DLC and Day One patches at it. Buying straight from the publisher helps, but it's the constant high expectations and early purchases that really fuels this.

Start Wars: Battlefield is a good, current example. At this point, we know it's online-only garbage that EA will fail to support indefinitely, making it a glorified MMO subscription. We also know there will most likely be a day one patch, a week one patch, and a month one patch before the game functions as a complete game should. But that's not enough to stop people from buying it early or pre-ordering it (to businesses, pre-orders are equivalent to cash minus bad debts and interest expenses). What needs to happen to really stop this, is more blatant support of complete games, and a refusal to buy incomplete games until their finished (ie: "Edition That Comes With All the DLC and Patches"). Until then, full-priced games will remain episodic.

I can't wait until the top bread becomes microtransaction.